Creative Positions in Adult Mental Health

Outside In-Inside Out

Sue McNab, Karen Partridge

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English

Karnac Books
10 April 2014

Care of the mentally ill; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

Series: The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series

"This book presents cutting edge developments in Adult Mental Health through the presentation of creative and innovative applications of systemic theory to practice. The first section deconstructs the medical model with some of the current beliefs and practices shaping services whilst placing adult mental health in a wider social and political context. The second half of the book showcases good practice from the field. At either end of the volume

""bookends"" invite current clients and staff to write about their experiences with the aim of bringing a powerful personal context into the work. We intend to create a shift from third person objectivity to a first person experience as a political act which flows through the book."

Edited by: Sue McNab, Karen Partridge
Imprint: Karnac Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9781780491929
ISBN 10: 1780491921
Series: The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 10 April 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Preface , Preface , Introduction , Outside in: A Stance Towards Theory , Psychiatric diagnosis and its dilemmas , Missing the point: the shy story of disappointment , Dancing between discourses , Constructing Alternative Positions , Coming to reasonable terms with our histories: narrative ideas, memory, and mental health , “Where the hell is everybody?” Leanna’s resistance to armed robbery ?and negative social responses , Psychiatry, emotion, and the family: from expressed emotion to ?dialogical selves , Inside Out: An Appreciation of Practice , Space In Tight Corners: Practice-Based Examples , Open dialogues mobilise the resources of the family and the patient , Narrative psychiatry , Family needs, family solutions: developing family therapy in adult mental health services , The significance of dialogue to wellbeing: learning from social constructionist couple therapy , Privileging the Voice of the Client and Therapist , Narrative therapy with children of parents experiencing mental health difficulties , Hearing Voices: creating theatre from stories told by mental health service users , Beyond the spoken word , Voices from the frontline: “keeping on keeping on”—what matters to staff working in adult mental health services? , Afterword , Afterword

Sue McNab worked as a Systemic Psychotherapist in CAMHS in London before moving to Adult Mental Health services in Oxford Health NHS Trust ten years ago. She has also been attached to the Tavistock Centre and the Institute of Family Therapy as a trainer and supervisor on the Masters courses and currently works on the Advanced Diploma in the Supervision of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy at IFT. During a period of working on adolescent inpatient units, she became interested in mother blaming and shaming discourses and has written on this topic with her colleague and friend Ellie Kavner. Karen Partridge is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist currently working at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and in private practice. Her clinical work has taken place primarily in adult mental health but she has worked across the age range and across services. Her PhD research was an enquiry into organisational change in hospitals, and she completed her systemic training at the KCC Foundation where she worked as a tutor and Co-Director. She teaches and supervises professionals in a wide range of settings and is interested in consultation and training in staff groups and organisations, and in the interface between therapy, community and organisational interventions, action research and social justice.

Reviews for Creative Positions in Adult Mental Health: Outside In-Inside Out

This collection is a wonderful array of multi-cultural contributors who shape and form the many systemic therapeutic possibilities and innovations in the context of international mental health services. Such diversity is to be celebrated as the main focus of the work is in the public services. The hope, coupled with the artistic and ethical brushstrokes outlined throughout, is indeed heartening in a time of manufactured austerity with its designed cut-backs, contraction, and the predominance of diagnosis with 'results driven' practices at the expense of creative and effective treatments. Thank goodness for the bravery of this book, its editors, and writers in their creative yet critical positionings, and for those vibrant (and sometimes rightly angry) marginal voices.